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School Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2013 | Grades 5-up
Gr 3–6—Follow Follow is a companion to Mirror Mirror (Dutton, 2010), Singer's first book of reverso poems in which she asks, "We read most poems down a page. But what if we read them up?" With just a few "changes allowed only in punctuation and capitalization," and reading the poem from bottom up, the adage "there are two sides to every story" is truly manifest. Masse's two-sided illustrations capture the changes in point of view, tone, and color. "No Bigger Than Your Thumb" presents a Thumbelina...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on February 1, 2013
"It's not easy," warns Singer in a note about the "reverso," a verse form she created and first used in Mirror Mirror (rev. 3/10); and the first poem ("Fairy Tales") in this companion collection gently alludes to the craft involved, "how hard it was to write." The poems here again subvert traditional tales by offering two points of view on the story: what goes down on the le...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
